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New Age and Esoteric Search:
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Yoga is a physical, mental and spiritual discipline which originally comes from India,
and is an integral part of Hinduism. It is actually a broad subject, which various styles, philosophies and traditions, each
one of which emphasises different methods and has different priorites. Raja Yoga, for example, focusses almost exclusively
on mental discpline and meditation, whereas the more popular Hatha Yoga focusses more on the purification and perfection of
the physical body, and promotes the use of the various postures and stretching exercises which people in the west most associate
with the practice of Yoga, and which can be used to promote good health without any great knowledge of the underlying philosophy,
and is even popular amongst people whose own beliefs run contrary to those of traditional Hindu Yogis.
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